让AI与设计师在约束中协作,激发结构设计创意。
Creativity from Friction: Human-AI Interaction for Exploratory Structural Design

- 用多模态交互让设计探索更像对话
- 减少重复建模负担,保留关键思考摩擦
- 适合需要反复迭代的结构设计者
基于用户输入生成最终答案的AI代理难以满足创意领域需求。结构设计与建筑等领域的创作需要互动系统,帮助用户外化想法、探索替代方案并完善初步方案。最终设计需满足空间布局、力学性能、材料用量和成本等多重约束,这些约束形成设计过程中的摩擦,反而可能激发新颖创意。本文指出当前生成式AI旨在消除摩擦、提供终版答案,与创作者通过迭代完善思路的需求存在错配。我们提出依赖视觉-语言模型的交互设计维度,使结构探索具备对话性、多模态性和对人类意图演变的响应能力,贴合学科创作流程。基于此原则构建原型界面,并通过专家研究验证:交互式AI能有效支持设计空间探索,在降低重复建模负担的同时,保留有助于反思的创造性摩擦。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI agents that generate final answers based on user input often do not meet the needs of creative fields. Fields such as structural design and architecture need interactive systems that help users externalise and develop ideas, explore alternatives, and refine partial solutions. The final product of such designs needs to comply with many constraints concerning, e.g., spatial configuration, mechanical behaviour, material quantities, and costs. These constraints create friction in the design process, which can stimulate novel and creative solutions. In this paper, we discuss the misalignment between current generative AI goals to remove friction and provide final solutions and the needs of creators, such as structural designers, who develop ideas through iterative work. We present the design dimensions of systems allowing for constrained human-AI co-creation that rely on vision-language models making structural exploration conversational, multimodal, and responsive to evolving human intent in ways that follow and augment the discipline's creative process. Through a pilot design interface based on these principles and a study with experts in the field, this paper shows how structural designers perceive interactive AI systems and how such systems can support design space exploration by reducing repetitive modelling friction while preserving reflective design friction.
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